Motivational Quotes

Wisdom

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Wisdom

The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.

Talmud, The

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -- in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Euripides

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

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Wise care keeps what it has gained.

Proverb, Danish

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Collins, John Churton

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Gabirol, Ibn

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Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Edmund Burke

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

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By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverb

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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Confucius

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The wisdom of a learned man comet by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. [Ecclesiasticus 38:25]

Bible

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

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He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Epictetus

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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

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Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

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Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

Hoffer, Eric

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The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

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Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

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Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

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Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Butler, Samuel

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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

Garbutt, Frank

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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.

Azai, Rabbi Ben

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The price of wisdom is eternal thought.